For Most Protein-Encoding Genes, the Synonymous Rate of Change Is

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For most protein-encoding genes, the synonymous rate of change is considerably higher than the nonsynonymous rate. In comparing two taxa, how might you interpret the evolutionary history of a gene if the nonsynonymous rate of change was higher than the synonymous rate?

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